Time

Session

Chair

Speaker

Title

3:00 PM

Check-in

5:00 PM

Opening Remarks

Luis M. Corrochano and Jennifer M. Hurley

5:15 PM

Perkins Awards

Jackie Pelham and Tina Kelliher

5:15 PM

Victor Sy

A DEAD-box RNA helicase mediates meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA

5:45 PM

Bin Wang

Multisite phosphorylation and dephosphorylation determine circadian transcriptional activity of the positive arm in the Neurospora clock

6:30 PM

Dinner

7:30 PM

Welcome Reception

Time

Session

Chair

Speaker

Title

8:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

Circadian Clocks and Light

Kathy Borkovich and Lori Huberman

9:05 AM

Deb Bell-Pedersen

Using Neurospora crassa to mend a broken clock

9:25 AM

Christian Hong

Interconnected network of circadian rhythms, cell cycle, and DNA damage response

9:45 AM

Tina Kelliher

Genome-wide regulation of mRNA polyadenylation across nutrient environments and over circadian time

10:05 AM

Jia Hwei Cheong

The clock in growing hyphae and their synchronization in Neurospora crassa

10:25 AM

Coffee Break

10:55 AM

Luis Larrondo

An ultradian oscillator ticks in Neurospora: from phenomena, to mechanisms and back to phenomena

11:15 AM

Michael Brunner

Phosphorylation of specific sites in WCC determines the phase of the circadian clock of Neurospora

11:35 AM

Jackie Pelham

The role of protein disorder in the temperature response of the Neurospora circadian clock

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Afternoon Break

2:30 PM

Beadle and Tatum Award Lecture

Jennifer M Hurley

Eugene Gladyshev

Towards understanding the initiation of homology-directed epigenetic silencing

3:30 PM

Fungal Cell Development and Morphogenesis

Deb Bell-Pedersen and Andrew Klocko

3:35 PM

Steve Free

Cell wall biogenesis and functions

3:55 PM

Thomas Hammond

Neurospora Sk-2 and Sk-3: recent advances towards understanding two complex spore killers

4:15 PM

Juan Manuel Martínez-Andrade

The unexplored apical and subapical organization of the endoplasmic reticulum in growing hyphae of Neurospora crassa

4:35 PM

Coffee Break

5:05 PM

Yen-Wen Wang

Origins of lineage-specific elements via gene duplication, relocation, and regional rearrangement in Neurospora crassa

5:25 PM

Louise Glass

Elucidating mechanistic processes of the cell wall remodeling checkpoint in Neurospora crassa

5:45 PM

Abigail Deaven

Convergence to multicellularity: Understanding the contribution of chromatin modification to cell fate transitions in Neurospora crassa.

6:00 PM

Elizabeth Hutchison

Overexpression of the Neurospora crassa sexual development regulator fsd-1 causes increased pigment production, reduced conidiation, and inhibits successful mating

6:15 PM

Teresa Lamb

Circadian clock control of ribosome composition leads to rhythms in translation and promotes rhythmic termination fidelity

6:30 PM

Dinner

7:30 PM

Poster session 1 Posters 1-13

Time

Session

Chair

Speaker

Title

8:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

Fungal Cell Metabolism and Signaling

Thomas Hammond and Christian Hong

9:05 AM

J. Phillip Benz

Identification of F-Box proteins involved in the switch to cellulolytic metabolism

9:25 AM

Lori Huberman

Characterizing the genetics of Neurospora crassaenvironmental sensing using functional genomics

9:45 AM

Cheng Wu

Translational regulation through the upstream open reading frame encoded inositol regulatory peptide

10:05 AM

Yagna Oza

Impact of G protein signaling on carbon catabolite repression and production of cellulases

10:25 AM

Coffee Break

11:10 AM

Meaghan Jankowski

Distributed multivalent interactions in a protein complex in the circadian clock turns an hourglass into a persistent oscillator.

11:25 AM

David S. Roos

FungiDB: Tools for genomic-scale data exploration, analysis, integration and discovery 

11:40 AM

Aaron Robinson 

Differences in thermotolerance between ecotypes of Neurospora discretaare primarily due to only two genomic regions

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Poster Session 2 Posters 14-27

3:00 PM

Neurospora Business Meeting

Luis M. Corrochano and Jennifer M. Hurley

4:00 PM

Fungal Genetics and Gene Regulation

J. Phillip Benz and Jonathan Arnold

4:05 PM

Andrew Klocko

Histone deacetylation and cytosine methylation compartmentalize heterochromatic regions in the genome organization of Neurospora crassa

4:25 PM

Yi Liu

Codon usage control of translation efficiency: from initiation to elongation and termination

4:45 PM

Coffee Break

5:15 PM

Scott Baker

Connecting genes and phenotypes by genome resequencing of Neurospora crassa mutant strains

5:35 PM

Oded Yarden

Wild and adventurous: Neurospora crassaleaves the lab

6:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM

Dodge Award Lecture

Luis Larrondo

Jennifer Loros

Stories from a collegial life

8:00 PM

Closing Remarks and Mixer

Luis M. Corrochano and Jennifer M. Hurley 

Time

Session

Chair

Speaker

Title

8:00 AM

Breakfast and depart